ABSTRACT
The preceding four chapters have followed the Adamic threads through the writings of five focus authors. Although they have not exhausted the possible readings of Adam set out in Chapter 2, they have nevertheless provided illustrations of the complex interweaving of his plural significances in seventeenth-century political thought. This chapter involves a brief recapitulation of some of the main themes of these chapters in relation to the categories of state and story before taking the authors’ stories forward to their conclusion, the interplay of different time frames impacting on the interpretation of that end.
